Sometime Today, acharya@dacafe.com assembled some asciibets to say:
1)I have configured the apache sereve. But when I access the site. It gives me an error 403/.Forbidden. Where can I set the permission. Note all the dirroot and the related folders have nobody as user and group. Rights 711. what should i do to set it right.
change the permission to 755. make sure that you have Indexes on for the <Directory> that you are trying to look at. Make sure permissions on any index.html/whatever else your directory index is set to is 644. There may be more you have to look at, but I can't think of it right now.
2)Can I access html files without using apache. means from any other ports.
Remotely, try telnet, ssh, rlogin/rsh, ftp. If you can log in to the machine, chances are you have permissions to read public_html files.
if you're local, then use lynx, netscape, mozilla, opera, w3m, links, emacs, vi, cat, ed, etc. Netscape may require a file:/// before the path to the file.
Philip